Miami has always held a special place for Tali Gur, 27, and Steven Salm, 31. It’s where they met, through mutual friends and on separate trips: she was in town from Montreal, where she lived at the time; he was visiting from Toronto. They kept in touch and, months later, Steven flew to Montreal for a weekend—and the couple had their first official date, dinner at Le Bremner. Two and a half years after that, the two took their first trip as a couple—to Miami, of course—where he popped the question. Initially, the two had planned to tie the knot in Florida, but Steven—who is the president of The Chase Hospitality Group, which includes Colette and Kasa Moto—was unhappy with the creativity of the food he was seeing from available caterers and chefs. The couple moved the ceremony to Toronto and Steven took matters into his own hands, hiring chefs from the Chase’s restaurants to cook for the wedding. While Tali, an assistant buyer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, jokes that Steven was a “groomzilla,” the two agree that he took on the bulk of the planning for the wedding: “My wife showed up,” he says, laughing.

Rather than indicating a formal or black-tie dress code, Steven and Tali’s wedding invitations requested “party and dance attire:” “We didn’t want to make it feel like the world had to stop because we were having a party that night,” Steven says.

The couple estimates 75% of their 150 guests came from out of town, so they put together gift bags containing maps of the city with their favourite spots to eat, drink and sight-see labeled, plus plenty of treats from The Chase’s restaurants. (They also had a discount Uber code the night of the wedding.)